2014 Inaise International Conference of Social and Solidarity Finance: “Mobilising social finance globally - learning from each other”.

The International Association of Investors in the Social Economy, INAISE will organise the 2014 International Conference of Social and Solidarity Finance (Thursday 8th May) together with a field visit/ roundtrip around the topic “Education and Cooperatives” (Friday 9th May). These events to which you are cordially invited will be held thanks to the invitation issued by GLS Bank, Oikocredit and the Institute for Social Banking, in Bochum, Germany. The conference topic is “Mobilising social finance globally - learning from each other”.

This event will be exceptional because we shall celebrate jointly 25 years of INAISE, 35 years of Oikocredit and 40 years of GLS Bank in Germany.

The purpose of this INAISE event is to create a space for international convergence efforts on social and solidarity finance to give visibility to the different practices of finance promoting the development of the social and solidarity economy.

This conference will provide a space of exchange, analysis and dialogue between participants from very different contexts and environments, however, sharing visions and trajectories with converging approaches.

The conference will address four topics articulating the challenges and issues of social and solidarity finance: cooperatives, agriculture, renewable energies and solidarity activities.

· The registration form to the Conference of Social and Solidarity Finance 2014

· The programme of the INAISE event 2014

More information about the event organizers:

INAISE (the International Association of Investors in the Social Economy) is a global network of socially and environmentally oriented financial institutions. Through INAISE, social investors from all over the world have been joining forces to exchange experience, disseminate information and show that money can actually used to achieve positive social and environmental change.

The GLS Bank was the first social and ecological bank in Germany. GLS stands for "community bank for loans and gifts" and was founded in 1974. It currently finances around cultural, social and ecological 20’000 projects and businesses focusing by developing creative solutions.

Oikocredit is one of the world’s largest sources of private funding to the microfinance sector, providing credit and equity to trade cooperatives, fair trade organisations and small to medium enterprises.

The Institute for Social Banking promotes a concept of finance and banking orienting itself towards a perception of and responsibility for the development of both people and planet.

More information: coordination.inaise@gmail.com
www.inaise.org